I’m not talking the “press button, wait , try again” kind, I’m talking about the utter bastards who will press the button, then if you have the temerity to not IMMEDIATELY open the door to their vaunted presence will hit the button again. And again. And again. And again.
My desk is less than 6m (EDIT: I just measured with my rolling tape for shits and it’s actually 4.785m from my desk, to the office door, out the door and then back down the hall) from the front door. If you ring the doorbell more than once in the time it takes me to get from my desk to said door I should be legally permitted to beat you with a chair.
Similar problem at work. IT, but we are -not- helpdesk/support.
Have a few frequent flyers who will continually just keep knocking on our (locked) door, constantly, no pauses, until someone turns up. Don’t even have the decency to knock and wait at least 3 seconds.
Inevitably it’s something they should be calling the helpdesk for (no we cannot reset your password or create a shared calendar for you) or they want to ‘just borrow’ some random cable that we’ll never see again. They get all huffy when sent away, but it keeps happening.
So thankful we won the fight with management to be allowed to lock our door, it was even worse in the before times…
Current pet peeve: Repeated doorbell ringers.
I’m not talking the “press button, wait , try again” kind, I’m talking about the utter bastards who will press the button, then if you have the temerity to not IMMEDIATELY open the door to their vaunted presence will hit the button again. And again. And again. And again.
My desk is less than 6m (EDIT: I just measured with my rolling tape for shits and it’s actually 4.785m from my desk, to the office door, out the door and then back down the hall) from the front door. If you ring the doorbell more than once in the time it takes me to get from my desk to said door I should be legally permitted to beat you with a chair.
Similar problem at work. IT, but we are -not- helpdesk/support.
Have a few frequent flyers who will continually just keep knocking on our (locked) door, constantly, no pauses, until someone turns up. Don’t even have the decency to knock and wait at least 3 seconds.
Inevitably it’s something they should be calling the helpdesk for (no we cannot reset your password or create a shared calendar for you) or they want to ‘just borrow’ some random cable that we’ll never see again. They get all huffy when sent away, but it keeps happening.
So thankful we won the fight with management to be allowed to lock our door, it was even worse in the before times…
Sorry that triggered a rant… :|
if they’re frequent flyers flag it with their managers. Make sure to couch it as friendly concern for the poor poor
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